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<title><![CDATA[Conrad Black - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14995.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Conrad Black]]></description><category domain="14995">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Iran Is Cooked, and the World Should Be Rejoicing]]></title>
							<link>https://brusselssignal.eu/2026/09/the-west-sulks-while-trump-squares-the-circle-in-iran/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Conrad Black</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The article examines Donald Trump's efforts in Iran, highlighting his critique of past wars and military strategies while advocating for nuclear non-proliferation and military action against threats.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Let's Look at Trump's Record That Most of the Press Won't Print]]></title>
							<link>https://x.com/ConradMBlack/status/2096990485654949999</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Conrad Black</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We are approaching the fifth and last biennial election in the Trump era, and the president has asked voters to make it a referendum on him. Let's take a look at his record.The tiresome and predictable criticism of a pro-Trump bias will come, as it always does when anyone tries to say...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What We Can Learn From Sen. Ossoff's Absurd Smears]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/08/31/what_we_can_learn_from_sen_ossoffs_absurd_smears_154461.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Conrad Black</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Dazzlingly illustrative of the ghastly intellectual and stylistic bankruptcy of the current Democratic Party is the recent attack by Senator Jon Ossoff of Georgia on President Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s assistant, Natalie Harp. As was easily predicted, since this was one of the very few absurd smears...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Britain Is a State Afraid of Facts Over Grooming Gangs]]></title>
							<link>https://brusselssignal.eu/2026/08/britains-grooming-gangs-scandal-exposes-a-state-afraid-of-facts/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Conrad Black</author>
							<description><![CDATA[riting from North America, it is difficult to know how widely in Europe the proportions of the so-called grooming gangs scandal of Britain have been reported.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ceuta Tests Spain's Border, Exposes Britain's]]></title>
							<link>https://brusselssignal.eu/2026/08/ceuta-tests-spains-border-and-exposes-britains/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Conrad Black</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The arrival of approximately 80,000 Moroccans at Ceuta highlights challenges in Europe's immigration policy and the contrasting approaches of Spain and the U.S. government.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Burnham Confirms Fears of UK's Accelerating Decline]]></title>
							<link>https://brusselssignal.eu/2026/08/britains-decline-is-not-thatchers-fault/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Conrad Black</author>
							<description><![CDATA[New Prime Minister Andy Burnham's claim that all of Britain's issues stem from Thatcherism highlights his failure to understand the country's recent historical successes and challenges.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Will Get What He Wants in Iran]]></title>
							<link>https://brusselssignal.eu/2026/06/trump-will-get-what-he-wants-in-iran-by-negotiation-or-by-force/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Conrad Black</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We seem finally to have reached the d'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('©').';'nouement in the long, extremely one-sided, and comparatively bloodless war the United States and Israel have conducted with Iran. In one month of strategic'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¦').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Will Win the War With Iran]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/04/13/trump_will_win_the_war_with_iran_154029.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Conrad Black</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Unless he suddenly loses practically all of the instincts and tactical astuteness that got him where he is, President Trump will win the Iran war. It may be that it will have proved a mistake to go to negotiations, but as the president has made clear before and during the Iran...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Has Trump Made 'Forever War' Impossible?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/02/has_trump_made_forever_war_impossible_153894.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Conrad Black</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The long buildup to the U.S.-Israeli attack upon Iran produced an almost unprecedented amount of fatuous comment. Many warned of a potential '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'forever war'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' and a morass reminiscent of Iraq and Afghanistan. President Trump, though, has devised a new method for dealing with...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Anti-Left Wave in Latin America]]></title>
							<link>https://brusselssignal.eu/2026/01/removal-of-maduro-reinforces-anti-left-wave-in-latin-america/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Conrad Black</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It has been disappointing but not entirely surprising to see the widespread hysteria in Europe in support of the illegitimate Maduro gangster regime in Venezuela, and the new round of anxiety about a'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¦').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Is Principal Architect of Peace in Ukraine, Middle East]]></title>
							<link>https://archive.is/wjun8</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[There is a grudging recognition that bringing the Arab powers to an implicit recognition of the right of Israel to exist is at least a tentative accomplishment.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The World According to JB Pritzker]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/01/the_world_according_to_jb_pritzker_153584.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Conrad Black</author>
							<description><![CDATA[No matter how familiar we become with the defamatory hyperbole of the Trump-haters, some of their utterances are disquieting. Few people are still startled by some of the attempted incitements to violence against the president and his followers of some of the racist African-American and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Use of National Guard Has Been Successful--and Welcome]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/17/trumps_use_of_national_guard_has_been_successful--and_welcome_153538.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Conrad Black</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Key Democrats turn out to be grateful.
It is now indisputable that'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'  President Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s use of the National Guard to reinforce local law enforcement and crime-ridden cities is successful and welcome when applied.
The rabidly partisan Democratic mayor of Washington, Muriel Bowser,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Trump Received the News That Charlie Kirk Died]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-ca/politics/government/conrad-black-i-was-with-trump-when-charlie-kirk-died-he-grieved-like-a-leader/ar-AA1MxdMy</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Conrad Black</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In an astounding coincidence, as the news arrived that Charlie Kirk, founder and head of the enlightened traditionalist movement Turning Point USA, had been assassinated, I was sitting in the Oval Office of the White House across the Resolute Desk from the President of the United States.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats, Animated by Loathing of Trump, Are Driving Their Party to Self-Destruction]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/07/01/the_democrats_animated_by_loathing_of_trump_are_driving_their_party_to_self-destruction_152982.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Conrad Black</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Democrats are now implacably self-destructive. They resemble nothing so much as a slowly capsizing ship, but show by their frenzied skullduggery that America is not in decline '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' the opposition is rotten and hopeless but it still fights savagely. I hope readers will pardon a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Election Lands Germany at a Crossroads]]></title>
							<link>https://archive.is/o4RSe</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 26 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Conrad Black</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The German elections confirmed that Germany, traditionally the most powerful country in Europe at least potentially, since Bismarck founded the German Empire in 1871, has arrived at a crossroads, bringing Europe and the Western Alliance with it.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Merry Christmas to Voters &amp; Excellent Prospects for 2025]]></title>
							<link>https://archive.is/m7mDz</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 26 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Conrad Black</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With four weeks to go before the re-inauguration of President Trump, the divisiveness and the orgy of unconstitutional activities that so severely divided the country and alarmed or at least astounded the world is practically over.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump, Tested Like No Other, Is More Compelling Than Ever]]></title>
							<link>https://archive.is/NSvUn</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 23 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Conrad Black</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This entire prolonged twilight of the hijacking of post-Reagan America by Democrats and look-alike Republicans is ending with slow and excruciating inexorability. There has been a reduction of the dignity of American presidential politics in which both parties have participated.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Panic as Harris Threatens To Bring Down Obama Era]]></title>
							<link>https://archive.is/1LttZ</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 16 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Conrad Black</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How refreshing it is to see the Democratic Party in full panic mode. Nothing is working and as a result, the entire and profoundly unsuccessful Obama-Biden interlude is stricken and faltering. In fairness to the voters, the country could not have voted Republican in 2008 after the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Referendum on Biden's Corruption of the Legal System]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/06/06/a_referendum_on_bidens_corruption_of_the_legal_system.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Conrad Black</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For 18 months I have predicted that the next presidential election will be in large measure a referendum between those who are so pathologically hostile to President Trump that they will tolerate any means to keep him from returning to the White House, and those who are so appalled at...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[To Question Israel's Legitimacy Is To Question Reality]]></title>
							<link>https://nationalpost.com/opinion/conrad-black-questioning-israels-legitimacy-is-to-question-reality-itself</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 07 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Opportunity Beckons for Israel To Deal a Mortal Blow to Its Deadliest Enemies]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/10/25/opportunity_beckons_for_israel_to_deal_a_mortal_blow_to_its_deadliest_enemies_149956.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 25 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Conrad Black</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It is my pleasure to dissent, cautiously and soberly but with some insistence, on the pessimistic utterances that resound with increasing frequency and volume over conditions in the Middle East. The anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian demonstrations are to some extent increasing throughout...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Israel Still Has Path to Peace With the Arab World]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nysun.com/article/if-israel-can-find-evidence-that-iran-had-a-role-in-this-attack-it-would-have-a-casus-belli-the-arab-world-would-understand</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 10 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Conrad Black</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Solidarity of opinion within the Jewish state might also enable a compromise in the political disputes that divide the country.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Is Not a Party Man, He's a Movement]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Conrad Black</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Scores of millions of Americans think Trump was wronged last time and deserves another chance.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Pressure Is on Biden: Why No Russia-Ukraine Talks?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nysun.com/article/the-pressure-is-on-biden-has-a-year-to-pull-out-a-success-in-ukraine</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Conrad Black</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Everyone knows that a reasonable compromise is hovering over the war between Ukraine and Russia, so why are there no negotiations?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hard To See Anyone Breaking Trump's Lock on GOP Nomination]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Conrad Black</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There now seems to be a double inexorability as the campaign for next year'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s presidential election gets seriously underway. On the one side, despite the most fervent ambitions of the Republican Never-Trumpers and anti-Trump independent voters, it is practically impossible to see...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump, Readying His Run for 2024, Comes Into Focus as an Enhanced Historic Figure]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/08/22/trump_readying_his_run_for_2024_comes_into_focus_as_an_enhanced_historic_figure_149657.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 22 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Conrad Black</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The trajectory of the campaign for next year'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s presidential election has been clear for some months: President Trump has led all the way, has grown slightly but steadily stronger, and stands much more strongly in the polls and in his prospects generally than he did at any time in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ukrainian Corruption Disqualifies Biden From Serving Another Term]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/08/16/the_trump_movement_despite_eight_years_of_efforts_to_stop_it_is_gaining_steam_149633.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 16 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Conrad Black</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The period of 15 months between now and the next presidential election is a vast chasm of what is now commonly called denial. For eight years, since the Trump phenomenon became a political force, a sequence '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' of options has been implemented for removing it. It was initially a subject of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Will Happen If Trump Goes to Trial for January 6 Charges?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/08/09/what_will_happen_if_trump_goes_to_trial_for_january_6_charges_149597.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 09 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Conrad Black</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Each week I resolve to try to write about some subject that does not include a reference to President Trump, but on most weeks some subject involving him is the most newsworthy story in the world. The indictment of him and others over the intrusion on January 6, 2021 at the U.S. Capitol...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Detractors, Not Trusting Voters, Turn to Prosecutors]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nysun.com/article/trumps-detractors-lacking-confidence-in-the-voters-turn-to-prosecutors-to-bring-him-down</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Conrad Black</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A vast canvas of confected legal harassment and monstrous defamation is being assembled and discharged against the 45th president.]]></description>
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